Science is a story of coming up with theories then doing our best to disprove them. That is especially true for theories on a ...

A new emulator is tackling the near-impossible task of mapping the universe's large-scale structure without sacrificing ...

Mapping the Universe’s vast structure no longer requires endless supercomputer time. Effort.jl brings cosmic modeling to laptops without sacrificing accuracy.

The reason it could be heard by teams on multiple telescopes and in all different directions was because that irritating noise was in fact the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – the leftover ...

Dark energy —the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the universe's greatest mysteries ...

A decade ago, the first gravitational waves confirmed that black holes collide. Telescopes soon revealed shadows of giants ...

For many parents, their first thoughts and images of their unborn child begin with the first ultrasound image they see. New studies suggest those thoughts are measurably influenced by how the ...

History of Ideas faculty and students gathered in Rapaporte Treasure Hall for an annual panel featuring faculty and student speakers. This year’s discussion theme was centered around the idea that we ...

New images from astronomers are unveiling the turbulent secrets of a supermassive black hole. The black hole, located in the ...

The reason that teams on multiple telescopes in all different directions could hear this noise is that this annoying sound was actually the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)—radiation left over from ...

New research shows how faint radio signals from the early Universe, soon to be detected by Moon missions, could reveal dark matter's secrets.

A Belgian priest came up with the Big Bang almost a century ago—but he also wanted to keep science and faith as separate as ...